I admit, I have been majorly slacking on the blog front in recent weeks, but I have some excellent reasons (no, really, I do). Following a year long search for the perfect job, I was offered a position as Program Associate for the Vancouver-based Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative in early June. Since then, I… [Read more…]
May 31, 2008
This article popped up in my Google Reader – 3 times. The article itself, from The Washington Post, casts a critical eye on the affluence that foreigners live in while working in Liberia. As this impoverished country climbs its way back from 13 years of civil war with the tiniest of steps, a boom is… [Read more…]
April 29, 2008
Fishing boats in Kokrobite, Ghana It sometimes seems like the mantra “give a man a line, not a fish” summarizes the approach taken to development by most practitioners who wish to move away from hand outs and towards breeding sustainability. It makes perfect sense, right? If you give him the fish, he will eat now… [Read more…]
March 29, 2008
World food prices are soaring, and this is having serious consequences on people’s livelihoods in the developing world. In addition, for organizations and agencies involved in food distribution or aid, the spike in food prices is also having an adverse effect on their ability to meet the needs of their beneficiaries. In recent news: USAID… [Read more…]
February 9, 2008
I both completely agree and completely disagree with Peter Brock’s movie, “They Come in the Name of Helping”. This undergraduate student from Skidmore took it upon himself to uncover the Truth behind the dynamics that animate Western aid to the developing world. While I applaud Mr. Brock for the courage he displays by trying to… [Read more…]
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July 11, 2008
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